The project will provide participants with training and guidance from historians and community archaeologists, including MBArchaeology.

To better appreciate Spa Ponds’ heritage value, participants will develop an understanding of the basics of archaeological and historical research and landscape fieldwork, and will explore written records in archives, libraries and museums.

We will also gather memories, photographs and artefacts of the site, including through the project’s Oral Histories element.

The Forest Town Nature Conservation Group received a Heritage Lottery Fund Sharing Heritage grant of £8,500 to help us pay for this project

Matt Beresford of MBArchaeology talking to FTNCG members in November 2016. Photo taken by Shlomo Dowen and released under the CC BY-NC 3.0 license.

Experts will provide mentoring support and deliver about a dozen workshops and training sessions in 2017 covering: